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Carmilla: the most ambiguous female vampire in fiction?
Listened to the thrilling dramatisation of Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ on Radio 4 Extra tonight by candlelight whilst the wind howled outside and I contemplated my pile of marking. Love the ending of this...
View ArticleBarry Forshaw ‘Sex and Death: Vampires from Coleridge to Hammer’
Instructive extract from Barry Forshaw’s British Gothic Cinema on the vampire theme in Gothic fiction from Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ through ‘Carmilla’ and dracula to its incarnation in cinema.
View ArticleLauren Chochinov, ‘Carmilla Rising: Adapting Le Fanu’s Novella In the Age of...
A very interesting review by Lauren Chochinov on the recent (2014) web-based adaptation of Le Fanu’s Carmilla by Jordan Hall and Ellen Simpson. I’ve only had glimpses of this series, but Chochinov’s...
View ArticleRoger Luckhurst, ‘From Dracula to The Strain: Where do vampires come from?’
A brilliant, concise overview of the origins of contemporary vampire narratives by Prof, Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck College, London. He traces the vampire story from the Eats European accounts in the...
View ArticleBefore Bram: a timeline of vampire literature
More useful information from Roger Luckhurst on the origins of the vampire. This timeline illustrates the ethnographic and literary precursors of Stoker’s Dracula.
View ArticleGenevieve Valentine, ‘How the vampire became film’s most feminist monster’
A fascinating essay by Genevieve Valentine on the shifting nature of the powerful and ambivalent female vampire in cinema.
View ArticleCarmilla Web Series
During a quick Halloween inspired Pinterest session, I stumbled across a web series called ‘Carmilla’ (2014 – ?) based on the novel of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu. The sapphic undercurrents of...
View ArticleLesbian Vampires in the Movies
I admit that I watched the appalling Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) and was suitably disappointed. (And I unashamedly like terribly, B-Movie style films). Though I suspect it meant to be an ironic...
View ArticleThe Lesbian Vampire: A (Fairly) Brief Media Retrospective
The Mary Sue has written a relatively brief (as the title suggests), but still interesting, media retrospective on the lesbian vampire. It covers more recent portrayals and I was very pleased to see...
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Vampires: Dracula, James Joyce, Jane Austen, bats, and Marx
Again, a bit too late for Hallowe’en, but a handful of essays on vampires here: 1. Recent research at the London Library on Bram Stoker’s annotations to source material for Dracula: ‘The Books That...
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